Tom Cruise’s Oscar dream is a disaster
In his new film Digger, Tom Cruise finally gives acting a go. What a shame
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Jane Austen, by Gen Z
The new Sense and Sensibility lacks the subtlety of the novel – and of previous adaptations
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Queen at Sea: a brutal masterpiece about the end of life
Lance Hammer’s film doesn’t attempt to be heartwarming
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The enduring brilliance of Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility
As Austen mania returns, the 1995 classic still shines for its wit, romance and sisterhood
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Late Fame is a story of snatched youth
Willem Dafoe plays a poet who’s mystified by his own revived fortunes
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Death has never been more camp
Jane Schoenbrun’s film about a rebooted horror franchise is an exhilarating celebration of cinematic sex and gore
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The inception of Gaullism
A new biopic shows how General de Gaulle gave France an idea of itself that was defiant and noble –…
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Tony cannot make Bourdain cool
The new film leaves you baffled by what the Bourdain cult was ever about
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Ice Cream Man: a lactose-fuelled zombie apocalypse
Eli Roth’s new film worships violence – but can never explain it
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Luton, mon amour
Ish, a coming-of-age story from the British Bangladeshi filmmaker Imran Perretta, is a love letter to a community on the…
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On the Sea: a romantic delirium
The director Helen Walsh has graduated from rapaciousness to tenderness
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The Odyssey is more Hollywood than Homeric
Christopher Nolan’s film is an epic return to old-fashioned studio excess
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Rosebush Pruning delights in its own bad taste
The family trait inherited by every member in the would-be satire is unredeemed nastiness
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Olivia Wilde’s near-perfect foursome
Seth Rogen is better than ever in dinner-party drama The Invite
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Jodie Foster is a force of nature in A Private Life
But this new crime mystery struggles with a personality disorder
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Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
The patriarchal world of Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day has been rewritten for our enlightened times
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Disclosure Day’s earnest hokum
Steven Spielberg’s return to extraterrestrials is as brilliantly filmed as anything he has made
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The British aristocracy has never been so wretched
Savage House is a perfect satire of upper-class social climbers, fraudsters and wannabes
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Backrooms: How 4chan “creepypasta” became Hollywood horror
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes
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Eagles of the Republic is an audacious exposé of the Egyptian state
Tarik Saleh’s film depicts a much-loved Egyptian actor drawn into the deadly world of the El-Sisi regime
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